Miller Fellow Carly Schissel’s (postdoc, UC Berkeley) writing was featured in the most recent edition of the Miller Institute newsletter. She wrote about her research interests and how her academic path led her to C-GEM’s science. Read it here!
Congratulations to Schepartz Lab postdoc Carly Schissel who was awarded a “Best Poster” award at the 2024 Genetic Code Expansion Conference last weekend in Corvallis, Oregon. Well-deserved! Featured image credit: Justin Smith, University Marketing, Oregon State University
Congratulations to Kate Shulgina (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) for being one of 21 people awarded the Don Brown Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship! The LSRF award provides three years of support to a named postdoctoral researcher doing life sciences research at a non-profit university or research… Read More »Kate Shulgina is awarded a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship
Meghan Pressimone (graduate student, UC Berkeley) and Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) both won travel awards to attend the 2024 Protein Society Annual Symposium. Congratulations to both of them!
On Wednesday, C-GEM talked to Dr. Diondra Dilworth and Dr. Lee Bishop, both chemists who’ve both found careers away from the bench. Dr. Dilworth is a Science Advisor working with patent lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP, and Dr. Bishop is the Biotech & Design Lead… Read More »Recap: C-GEM chats careers with scientists in patent law and museum education
Congratulations to Chintan Soni (graduate student, Boston College) for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Bioorganic Chemistry Conference GRC!
Welcome to the 2024 cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) scholars! This year we are hosting eight scholars across six C-GEM labs on the University of California Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Yale, and Cornell campuses. Our SURP students hail from California, New York, and… Read More »C-GEM welcomes the fourth cohort of summer undergraduates!
C-GEM Executive Director Sarah Smaga represented the scientific community with 24 other ASBMB members to advocate for supporting and funding basic science research in Washington D.C.. Smaga and others met with elected officials and their staffers to stress the importance of research funding. Read more… Read More »C-GEM represents on Capitol Hill
The templated synthesis of proteins containing non-canonical and expanded backbone monomers (collectively called nnAAs) promises to vastly expand the chemical space available to biological therapeutics and materials, but existing technologies remain limiting. Addressing these limitations requires a deeper understanding of how the translational mechanism is… Read More »New paper: β-amino acids reduce ternary complex stability and alter the translation elongation mechanism
C-GEM has hired Jennifer Poo as the Education and Outreach Manager. The EO manager oversees the implementation and evaluation of existing C-GEM programs and contributes to the development of new programming. Programming includes externally focused community outreach as well as internal programs for C-GEM members.